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// Song of Soarin' 
// Story: (SiC) Part 9 - Sailing Through The Storm 
// by Brian Jacko 
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	Rainbow Dash came home after a rough day and things were not going the way she had planned. She had enough of not being able to spend much time with her spouse since for some reason, he didn't want to be with her unless it involved food or the bed. Long gone were the days when he was romantic and did things for her like risking his life to pick rare, colorful flowers in the Everfree forest, or spending some time with her by the lake that was so special to her. She was looking around for some professional help and thought that maybe seeing a counselor would be the best route. Rainbow Dash was frustrated by the lack of communication and was fed up. She was going to let him know that today, big time and the bad day she was having was the tipping point on that decision. Rainbow slammed the door and called out, "Soarin'! I've seriously reached my boiling point and I'm here to tell you that I've had enough and..." Before Rainbow Dash could finish her sentence, Soarin' raced out and scooped her up in his hooves with a great big smile. He pushed her up against the wall and kissed her for quite a while. Rainbow Dash blinked her eyes several times in disbelief as she stared at him. "What's going on? I'm so confused."

Soarin' reached out and placed a blind fold over her eyes. 

"Hey!" Rainbow Dash cried out. "What are you doing to me?"

"Can you see anything?" Soarin' asked.

Rainbow Dash moved her head around. "Uh, no."

"Perfect," Soarin' said and then kissed her on the cheek before flying her into another room.

"Where are you taking me?" Rainbow asked.

"Don't peek," Soarin' commanded. 

"Okay?" Rainbow Dash said in the most unsure voice. Her mind was racing and she was a little bit afraid by this sudden change in Soarin'. She felt him place her down on what most likely was the bed. She wasn't going to ask any more questions, although she wasn't a major fan of surprises like Pinkie Pie was. Her ears perked up as she heard Soarin' pulling something out from under the bed that sounded quite heavy as it bumped against one of the legs of the bed. "What on earth is he doing?" Rainbow Dash thought to herself. She then heard the sound of something snapping, like a mouse trap going off. She heard more odd sounds and had no idea what they were. 

"You can take the blind fold off now, Dash." 

Rainbow Dash did so and she was in awe when she saw that the bed was covered with roses and there were candles lit all around the room. She couldn't see Soarin', but she heard a sweet sound of harmony. 

Soarin' stepped into view and sat down on the floor below Dash. The light from the candles flickering showed his face, but she also saw what had made that warm and heavenly sound. He had an acoustic guitar and started strumming it again. 

Rainbow Dash laid on her side and put her hoof to her cheek, holding her head up. She didn't expect this, but there was an awesome smile on her face, as she was quite interested in how this would all play out. She sighed one great breath and her eyes closed half way in sheer pleasure. 

Soarin' cleared his throat and began to sing as he played the acoustic guitar. 

"Rainbow Dash. Faster than the speed of light. 

Tough as they come, never afraid to fight.

With blazing speed she zips past others in a rainbow blur. 

The fastest pony in Equestria, no one can keep up with her. 

A loyal friend and a great companion.

Sonic rainbooms over grand canyons. 

She is my wife who came into my broken life and became my rainbow. 

For what exact reason she did this, I do not know. 

I'm just a lucky stallion who doesn't deserve her but wanted to try

to please her some way before I die.

For I want to love her like Christ loves the Church.

A love that cannot be measured by its worth. 

A pony who stays true, whether life stays sunny or the rain starts pourin'

I'm so happy to have her as mine, my heart keeps soarin'. 

She is the pony whom I'll never let go.

So I wrote this song to tell her so."

Rainbow Dash put both of her hooves to her mouth and giggled. She thought this just may have been the most adorable thing that he's done yet, but she also couldn't help but laugh at just how off key his singing was. 

Soarin' changed the chord progression and he began the chorus. 

"Rainbow, rainbow, my rainbow in the sky. 

The pie of my eye and loyal by my side. 

My angel on the cloud who stands out from the crowd. 

Not a day goes by where I forget the magic of her heart, 

adventurous and thrilling, loving and willing.

This mare is mine and she is my jewel that sparkles and shines, no matter what troubles the day may bring. 

A faithful wife that I get to take under my wing and I sing for our relationship with Christ as our King."

He continued to play and sing until he put the guitar down. 

Rainbow Dash clopped her hooves loudly with delight. 	

"It's not over yet," he said as he picked up another guitar and flicked a switch that lit up a small red light on the amp. "You might appreciate this better than the acoustic guitar." Soarin' went into a loud, crunchy sounding guitar solo. 

Rainbow watched and listened as the guitar wailed through the bending of strings and the fast hammer-ons and pull-offs that he performed. The solo had a mixture of slow, emotional beauty and fast technical moments of playing. It was long and it followed the chord progression that he used when he was singing. 

Soarin' hit the last note and let it ring out as he stretched his right front leg out and bowed. 

Rainbow Dash squealed with delight and put both her hooves to his head and kissed him on his snout. 

"Was it good enough?" Soarin' asked as he leaned the guitar against the desk next to the bed. "I tried so hard when it came to putting this all together."

"Good enough!?" Rainbow Dash asked. "That's got to be the sweetest and greatest thing you have ever thought of. I never knew you could play the guitar so well! I loved it! Come up here!" Rainbow Dash said as she patted her hoof on the bed. 

Soarin' came up and sat down next to her on the bed. "How was my singing though? Be honest."

Rainbow Dash giggled. "Well, let's just say that you sounded slightly off key, but in many ways, it made the whole experience that much more adorable. Where did you learn to play the guitar like that?"

"Oh, well that was the entire secret that I didn't want you to know about until now. I never played guitar before until I recently found out that this new mare in town was giving music lessons and it's always something that I wanted to try. I wanted to find some way to make you happy because you're suffering and let's face it, even if you weren't suffering, you still deserve something like this because you really are that special to me."

Rainbow Dash put her hoof up in the air and was about to say something, but she suddenly felt guilty about how she assumed that Soarin' was up to no good.  She put her head back down and could no longer look him in the eyes. "Aw, horse apples. Way to make me feel bad for not trusting you." Rainbow Dash put her hooves to her head. "I thought that perhaps you weren't being faithful to me because you may feel that I'm boring to you. I'm not exactly in the best shape of my life and I was worried because of our past. I don't like to bring up bad things from the past, but I couldn't help but think of that one time when you did stray from me. Now I see that I was really wrong to jump to conclusions. I'm so sorry, Soarin'. I made a horrible assumption. Please forgive me."

Soarin' put his front leg around her. "Hey, I understand why you would think that and I tried to assure you the best I could. I love you and I was planning a surprise for you like this for a long time. I know you told me that you don't like surprises, but wasn't it worth the wait?"

Rainbow Dash picked her head up and smiled. "It really was and I'm so thankful for the song that you wrote for me. I couldn't imagine how much work that was for you. Thank you." 

"So how about a smile, kid?" Soarin' asked as he gave her a playful punch on her jaw.

Rainbow Dash beamed with a smile and hugged Soarin' tightly. "You are the best possible pony for me. I don't even know what to say right now, but thank you. You are my Dino-Soarin'!" 

"So, why don't we do something special tonight? I still have a box of fireworks upstairs and we could always set some off for fun tonight by that lake." 

Rainbow Dash smirked and then pushed Soarin' on his back. She pinned him to the bed with her hoof on his chest. "Actually, I was thinking about setting off some other fireworks that I had in mind." 

"Oh really?" Soarin' asked with an awkward smile.

"Yeah, and you totally earned an endless amount of wife points for today."

"Wife points?" Soarin' asked. "What do I use those for?"

"You can unlock special favors with these points that you acquire," Rainbow said as she slowly rubbed her hoof in circles on his chest.

"What kind of favors?" Soarin' asked, slowly catching on to this little game.

Rainbow Dash closed her eyes halfway in a seductive manner and answered him. "Anything your heart desires me to do."

"I think I might have to agree that your idea of setting off fireworks might be a bit more fun than what I had in mind. I think I'd like to spend these wife points now."